Trump – David Haldane

April 7, 2025

Deporting Radicals

By David Haldane April 7, 2025 I understand why students protest. As an undergraduate at UCLA in the late 1960s, I spent a fair […]

March 10, 2025

One Job

By David Haldane March 10, 2025 He had one job. To sign an already-negotiated agreement granting US rights to Ukrainian rare-earth minerals, which America […]

December 16, 2024

A Return to Old-Fashioned Journalism at the LA Times?

By David Haldane Dec. 16, 2024 I’ve been meaning to write this column for a couple of months. My hesitation was because it involves […]

November 17, 2024

Sexual Suffrage or Feminist Freakout?

By David Haldane Nov. 18, 2024 I can’t say I’m surprised. Distressed by Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, some leftist American women are vowing to […]

June 12, 2023

Slaughter, Slaughter Everywhere

By David Haldane June 8, 2023 The headline was a grabber. “We had our own holocaust here,” it grievously intoned. The story that followed–on the […]

June 16, 2022

Activism’s Heavy Toll

By David Haldane June 16, 2022 It was everywhere. With few exceptions, every TV news channel in America livestreamed last week’s Congressional hearings in […]

February 10, 2022

Who Do You Trust?

By David Haldane Feb. 10, 2022 When I was a college student in Southern California, the name Ferdinand Marcos evoked visions of hell. Wasn’t […]

April 8, 2021

Crossing Borders

By David Haldane April 8, 2021 One of the happiest days of my life was the one in which my Filipino fiancé arrived in America. […]

February 18, 2021

Trump and Duterte

By David Haldane Feb. 18, 2021 I felt honored that she asked me. An old friend, a Filipino journalist named Effe Barker now living in […]

February 4, 2021

Boarded Windows

By David Haldane Feb. 4, 2021 The boards are everywhere. Driving along the nighttime streets, you see them on the storefront windows. Some stand nailed […]

January 21, 2021

Old Friends

By David Haldane Jan. 21, 2021 It had been nearly two years since we’d last met. Heather and I go way back. Sometime in the […]

January 14, 2021

Second American Revolution?

By David Haldane Jan. 14, 2021 I couldn’t believe it was real. As thousands of protestors converged on the US capitol building in Washington, D.C., […]